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For decades, Matrix has hosted entrepreneurs and executives from our network as Entrepreneurs In Residence or Executives In Residence. Many of our successful portfolio companies, in fact, came out of incubation being done by EIRs in our offices. To that end, the Matrix team is pleased to welcome Eric Grosse and James Beriker as Entrepreneurs in Residence in our Silicon Valley office. Read More

Before joining Matrix, I’ve had some experience with seed investors – I had a dozen or so of them at Betfair (Flutter), my first company, and then made a number of investments myself when my entrepreneurial investments began to bear fruit. The following advice comes out of my experience, and while I was not terrible at it, I can’t claim I did this perfectly as a founder – you learn from what you do wrong as well as right. Read More

I attended a panel last night nominally on the topic of whether the local startup ecosystem was best seen as the M&A feeding grounds of big west coast technology companies. Because it was an interesting group of panelists, we wandered a bit and never really dug into the core question of whether this is true and what its implications might be for the overall technology industry in Cambridge and Boston. Having been Twitter taunted by Scott Kirsner to come prepared for a fight, I was disappointed we mostly avoided the topic. Read More